“Of the 150 million phones sold last year in India,about 10 million were smartphones. The category is growing at 70 per cent and we estimate that by 2015,one in two phones sold would be a smartphone. This is the potential that we see in the smartphone category in India,” Sony Mobile Communications India Managing Director P Balaji told reporters here.

As part of the Sony group,the company is in a stronger position to bring connected entertainment experiences to consumers in India,he added.